Why NASA, IMSA, and tech companies are teaming up on tech transfer
IMSA provided accommodation so Ars could attend its symposium and the Rolex 24. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—The annual 24-hour race...
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TigerVNC 1.16 Released With “w0vncserver” For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions
TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is “w0vncserver” as a new server...
Read moreZombie Netscape Won’t Die
The very concept of the web browser began with a humble piece of software called NCSA Mosaic, all the way back in 1993. It was soon...
Read moreRust at Scale: An Added Layer of Security for WhatsApp
WhatsApp has adopted and rolled out a new layer of security for users – built with Rust – as part of its effort to harden defenses...
Read moreRAG isn’t dead, but context engineering is the new hotness
So, is RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) dead now? Last May I asked that question of Douwe Kiela, CEO of Contextual AI, based on the growing hype around...
Read moreStratospheric internet could finally start taking off this year
Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number...
Read moreMeet the mysterious electrides
For close to a century, geoscientists have pondered a mystery: Where did Earth’s lighter elements go? Compared to amounts in the Sun and in some meteorites,...
Read moreZlib-rs Declares A Stable & Complete API For This Rust-Based Zlib Implementation
Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete…
Read moreXfwl4: the roadmap for a Xfce Wayland compositor
The Xfce team has announced that it will be providing funding to Brian Tarricone to work on xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for Xfce: Xfwl4 will not...
Read moreAs data from space spikes, an innovative ground station company seeks to cash in
A company that seeks to disrupt the way in which data from space is received and transmitted has found some key investors and customers. On Tuesday...
Read moreChainguard EmeritOSS backs MinIO, other orphaned projects
Open source has a problem. There are many under-supported, or even abandoned, open source programs that are still in wide use, but there’s no one at...
Read moreSecurity updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, python-urllib3, python3.11-urllib3, and python3.12-urllib3), Debian (imagemagick, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and openjdk-21), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, ghostscript, glibc, mingw-glib2,...
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